Best chess books to read series#
You can supplement this puzzle book series with the basic chess books.Ĭheck the current price here! (on Amazon) 8. The problems are thematic and useful and so I highly recommend this book. So there’s a ton of material to practice. In all, you learn almost all of the standard tactics you need to learn when you are just starting out.īook – 3 is about mastering defensive techniques, book – 4 is about sacrifice, and book – 5 is about finding the winning moves.Įach of these books has around 500 problems. This first volume is about the must-know checkmates, checkmate patterns, mate in one, mate in two combinations.īook – 2 is about winning material and it covers the basic tactics such as pins, forks, skewers. The book I have shown here is the book – 1 of the five-volume book series. This is a five-volume chess puzzle book series. This book is authored by Susan Polgar, the former Women’s World Chess Champion and an award-winning chess coach. As a beginner, it is very important that you solve a lot of tactical puzzles and for that, I really like the series of puzzle books, Learn Chess The Right Way By Susan Polgar. Practice is very important to learn anything and that’s where you need a good puzzle book. Learn Chess The Right Way By Susan Polgar However, that would not be much of an issue for you as the key is to grab the important ideas that the author wants to convey to you and thus apply them in your games.Ĭhess players have found positive results with this book and have seen improvement in their rating, so I recommend this book to you.Ĭheck the current price here! (on Amazon) 7. The only downside is since the book is very old the game material is also old. This is one of the best middlegame chess books for beginners. You will get a proper in-depth analysis of a lot of chess games. Inside it, as the name of the book itself suggests, you will get the explanation of each move made and the logic behind it with suitable diagrams. Logical chess move by move is also a good book. Logical Chess Move By Move By Irving Chernev
Best chess books to read how to#
So the bottom line is if you know how to set up the board and the very basic rules, but interested to know the basic tactical and checkmate patterns which will help to improve you a lot, then this book is the one that you should definitely check out.Ĭheck the current price here! (on Amazon) 6. The author of this book starts by discussing how the chess players actually think, what matters the most in playing and winning the games.Īnd then, he one by one describes the 50 deadly checkmating patterns with proper and illustrative diagrams. It is expected that you already know how to set up the board, and some basic chess terms like a check, checkmate, stalemate, castling, etc.īut don’t worry, because for that you can supplement it with the books I talked about earlier, Chess For Dummies or Winning Chess. You will not get an explanation of the basic chess terminologies. And in this book, you will find a lot of mating / tactical patterns. How to beat your dad at chess, yes, you heard this right! This is an awesome chess book written by Murray Chandler, the New Zealand Chess Grandmaster. How To Beat Your Dad At Chess By Murray Chandler This book basically covers everything you could ask for as an introductory chess book and so if that is what you are looking for then this book will be a good choice for you.Ĭheck the current price here! (on Amazon) 5. But it is not so concerning issue because there are a lot of good puzzle books (like Learn Chess The Right Way by Susan Polgar – discussed ahead) for beginners which you can supplement with this one. The only drawback is you can’t find a lot of tactical puzzles (since this is not a puzzle book). It also teaches how to calculate the lines, how to spot tactics (In chess, Tactics mean the sequence of moves that helps you to limit your opponent’s options and gives you some advantage.) In case you don’t know, in chess, there are three phases, opening, middlegame, and endgame. It teaches you the various basic chess concepts, how to approach the opening phase, the middlegame, and the endgame phase. This is a very good book for beginners as it covers all the basic rules and fundamentals. This is one of the first books that the World Chess Champions, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov read when they were younger. The Soviet Chess Primer By Ilya Maizelis is a very well-known book. So if you want a classic chess book that teaches you the fundamental principles of chess then you can add this book to your chess library.Ĭheck the current price here! (on Amazon) 4. This book is actually good for adult beginners, for those who played chess earlier but were detached from chess for a long time and want to relearn chess again.
Is chess fundamentals a good book? The main theme of this book is to teach you the basic principles.